Social Packet Radio Operators In North Georgia

SPROING - BBS & Chat Configuration

With the node running (Tarpn test is OK) connect to :7777

Click on Mail Management

Log in. User name is your callsign (lowercase!), password is p (also lowercase)

Select “Configuration”, and set the BBS Call to your callsign, Sysop Call the same, and change BBS APPL No to “3”, like this. If any boxes are different, change them to match, then click Save (Waay at the bottom).

Select Users. Add all the users on the network: (We try to keep this list up-to-date)

• N2IRZ Don
• NZ2Z Bob
• KQ4TTT Stephen
• KN4RVZ Brian (sysop in this example)

After adding them, for users (everyone but you), click each in turn and make the page match what is shown here, then click Update:

For the sysop (you!), make the page match this (with your info, of course) and click Update:

Now click on Forwarding. For each user (and you), make the screen match what is shown below, the exception being the “To” box (their callsign) and the “Connect Script” box (which should say “C xxxx” (where xxx is their nodename, like BOB, DON, STEPHN, BRIAN, etc.) then click Update. Changes are: Top 4 boxes (add text); Check enable forwarding, set interval to 1800; Set max block to 10000; Set incoming connect timeout to 120. Then update.

Click on Welcome Msgs & Prompts, verify it matches this (Use your callsign in the user prompts) then click Save. Important is the “Hello Boss” text in Expert User Welcome, as this is used by another application.

Click on Housekeeping just to look. For NOW, do NOT check off “Suppress Mailing of Housekeeping report” at this time. Instead, leave it on for a week or two, until you get a feel for what the reports say. Then go ahead and check that box to switch housekeeping messages off. Click Save to make it stick.)

To finish, click on Node Menu.

Now on to Chat.

From the Node menu, click on Chat Mgmt, and select Configuration.
Add the nodes to link to. Not yourself. These take the form:
Zxxx09:callsign-9 Where xxx is the last 3 characters of the callsign.
You can copy & paste this list (but exclude yourself): We try to keep this up-to-date.

ZZ2Z09:NZ2Z-9
ZTTT09:KQ4TTT-9
ZIRZ09:N2IRZ-9
ZRVZ09:KN4RVZ-9

Then click Save, and Restart links. (Update map is only for internet-connected packet)

This is what mine looks like:
The bit about ‘no internet’ means that unlike many BPQ nodes, we do not have a connection to an internet server to share messages. “Sproing.org” is this website. Since there is no internet connection, nobody would ever see that text anyway…

Now reboot the node and you should be all set.